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The narrator’s voice in “Marigolds”, by Eugenia Collier, is reflective and wise as she portrays herself as a carefree, immature, fourteen year old, using imagery to convey her emotional journey of her growth from childhood to adulthood. Lizabeth takes time to reflect on her actions as a kid and remembers how she has transitioned from that. Her emotions as a teenager were chaotic and uncontrollable to her at the time, so she takes her whirlwind of emotions out on Miss Lottie’s marigolds, the only beautiful thing in the shantytown. She begins to destroy the flowers. Using words with a strong negative connotation, while she unleashes her confusion, she describes herself, “tearing and mangling” at the marigolds as she is “sobbing.” (22). Lizabeth
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